Labette County commissioners on Monday approved five agreements for backup 911 answering services.
The agreements will allow the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council to set up these call routes in the next generation 911 system that operates in Labette County and will automatically transfer 911 calls that go unanswered after 30 seconds or if there are technical issues in the county that interrupt 911 service.
Parsons Police Department and Labette County 911 are each other’s backups, so if the county’s 911 system were down in Oswego, Parsons Police Department dispatchers would answer 911. Allen County is a secondary backup for Labette County and Labette County will answer Allen’s overflow calls as well as a secondary backup.
Labette County will answer Bourbon County overflow 911 calls, but there was not a corresponding agreement for Bourbon to answer Labette’s overflow calls.
911 Director Brandy Grassl discussed these agreements with commissioners.
She said once the coordinating council builds these routes, the system will reroute calls as needed.
(Read more: Parsons Sun)